Litter-carrier.



' L. T. SOHEMMEL & 0. L. BESLER.

- LITTER CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1909.

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. LITTER-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1910.

Application filed June 30, 1909. Serial No. 505,285.

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEWIS T. SOHEMMEL, of Dyersville, Dubuque county,Iowa, and CHARLES L. BESLER, of Hopkinton, Delaware county, Iowa,citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Litter-Carriers, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention is an improvement on our device shown and described inLetters Patent issued to us on the 13th day of April 1909 and numbered917,801.

The following specification when read in connection with the drawingsaccompanying the same will point out in what the invention consists andwherein it is differentiated from the invention described and shown inour former patent.

Figure 1. is a perspective View of the carrier in an upright positiontaken from the front. Fi 2 is an end View with the tub locked. Fig. 3 isan end view with the tub partly turned. Fig. 4 is a plan view of thelocking member.

Like characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each of thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, 2 designates a cable or track upon which thecarrier hereinafter to be described travels. On this track is mountedtwo wheels 4, from which is suspended the car 5, by the connectingbrackets 6. The car 5 consists of a beam 8, to which the brackets 6 areattached. To the beam 8 is rigidly secured hangers 10 by bolts 12. Thetub or carrier 14 is provided at its end with stays or-reinforcements16, and is pivoted to the hangers 10 by pivots passing through the stays16.

Against the under side at one end of the.

beam 8 is secured a locking member 20, shown in Fig. l, by a bolt 22.One end of the member is bent downward and outward in the form of acurve at 24, and is provided with a slotted opening 25. Against an uppercorner of the tub 14, is secured a bracket 26 in which is pivoted an arm28. This arm is slightly curved and projects through the opening 25 andat its outer end is provided with a knob or catch 30 whereby it isprevented from being withdrawn from engagement in said opening 25 of thelocking member 20 but is permitted to freely slide therein.

Upon opposite sides of the beam 8 near one end and a trifle beyond thelocking member is pivoted a rectangular trip 32 which is curved at oneend 34 and projects under the locking member but over the arm 28.Against the underside of the track 2 near its dump end is secured a trip35, adapted to engage the trip 32.

The manner of operating our device is substantially as follows. Startingwith the car in position, shown in Fig. 1, and the tub filled and thetrip 32 in a vertical position above its pivot and the arm 28 in theupper end of the slotted opening 25 of the locking member 20. The car isstarted and travels along the track till it approaches near the dumpwhen the trip 32 comes into engagement with the trip 35 on the track andas the car advances, the trip 32 is forced toward the bracket 6, whichbrings the curved end 34 down on to the arm 28 and forces it downward inthe slotted opening and this action forces the arm farther through theopening 25 and draws with it the side of the tub out of its equilibriumand immediately the tub is overturned, driving about half or more of thearm through the slot 25, but as the tub is turned farther over, it drawsthe arm with it till the knob 30 comes into contact with the lockingmember 20 in the outer end of the opening 25, where it suddenly arreststhe further turning of the tub and the contents of the tub isimmediately dumped. When the carrier is returned, the operator turns thetub into an upright position and this brings the arm 28, up against thebent portion 34, or the trip 32, and locks the carrier in an uprightposition ready to be refilled.

It will be seen that this mode of construction is exceedingly simple,that it dispenses with the chain, and that the locking of the tub in anupright position and unlocking is entirely automatic.

Having now described our invention, what we claim is:

1. In a device of the class described, a track, a car adapted to travelon the track, a tub pivoted in the car, a means for suddenly arrestingthe rotation of the tub before it is inverted to forcibly eject thecontents of the tub, consisting of an arm attached to the tub, a lockingmember attached to the car, and means connected with the arm and lockingmember to cause the arm to remain in continuous engagement with thelocking member.

2. In a device of the class described, a

track, a car suspended from the track and adapted to travel thereon, atub pivotally attached to the car, means for suddenly arresting therotation of the tub before it is inverted to jar or force out thecontents of the tub consisting of a locking member attached to the car,an arm loosely attached to the tub and provided With a knob adapted toengage and remain in continuous e11- gagement With the locking member.

3. In a device of the class described, a track provided With a tripthereon, a car suspended from the track and adapted to travel thereon,atub pivotally attached to the car, a trip on the car adapted to engagethe trip on the track, and means connecting the car with the tub forsuddenly arresting the movement of the tub before dumping, consisting ofa locking member provided with an opening near one end secured to thecar, an arm loosely attached to the tub and provided with a knob at oneend adapted to engage and remain in constant engagement With the lockingmember.

In testimony whereof We aifix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

LEVIS T. SCHEMMEL. CHARLES L. BESLER.

Vitnesses M. M. CADY, D. A. Zoee.

